When "Better" is SO Much Worse

Can someone please explain to me why people think widescreen TVs are oh-so-super-fabulous and just the last word in "I'm cooler than you"-ness? they're AWFUL. Every actor looks bizarrely bloated, and it's harder to read the text on the screen because it's all stretched-out and a hereto-fore normally sized taxicab looks like the Cab That Ate New York City, and so I spend the whole time trying to re-size everything in my head and totally miss what's happening in the show/movie I'm PAYING TO WATCH. And yet, my good friend's obnoxious, smacked-ass of an unjustly self-aggrandizing husband spent the entire time I was (very uncomfortably) visiting twittering about how "RAD" his new widescreen panel was and how it's "MAD" expensive and only those people earning "MAD" bonuses could possibly afford them, so I shouldn't feel bad I don't have one... um. thanks, but I really don't feel bad. not one bit.But should I?